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“Value investing is the discipline of buying shares at a significant discount from their current underlying values and holding them until more of their value is realised. The element of a bargain is the key to the process.”

Values Process Share Keys Discipline Elements Investing Currents Significant Buying Realised Bargains Discounts

Author:Seth Klarman

“It took a lot of courage to take the high road, but I would rather be significant with six million people watching a show with meaning, than everyone watching a show with no meaning.”

People Shows Millions Six Significant High Road Taking The High Road

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“It is significant that the nationalization of thought has proceded everywhere pari passu with the nationalization of industry.”

Wisdom Politics Economy Industry Significant Liberalism

Author:Edward Hallett Carr

“For my own part, I believe that there is social and psychological justification for significant inequalities of incomes and wealth.”

Believe Wisdom Politics I Believe Social Wealth My Own Economy Significant Income Psychological Inequality Liberalism Justification

Book:General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money

Source: General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money

“I believe I went through a divorce. My relationship with Ellen is no less significant as a marriage than my relationship to Coley.”

Believe I Believe Divorce Significant

Author:Anne Heche

“Most of us harbour a significant amount of subconscious fear about death, and act out of this fear in our daily lives.”

Amount Significant Daily Life Subconscious Harbour

Author:Christy Turlington

“This is the first time Denmark has ever reached the World Cup finals, so this is the most significant moment in Danish history.”

World Firsts Moments Football First Time Finals Significant Cups Commentators World Cup Denmark Danish Cup Finals Significant Moments

Author:John Helm

“If the assertion that there is a god is nonsensical, then the atheist's assertion that there is no god is equally nonsensical, since it is only a significant proposition that can be significantly contradicted.”

Ifs Atheism Atheist Positive Atheism Significant Propositions Assertion There Is No God Nonsensical

Author:A.J. Ayer

“The history of all times and nations teaches us that exactly in the naïve, unshakable belief, furnished by religion in active life of believers, originate the most intense motives for the most significant creative performance, not only in the field of arts and sciences but also in politics.”

Art Belief Nations Teach Creative Atheism Fields Performances Positive Atheism Active Believer Significant Intense All Time Motive Art And Science Unshakable Active Life

Author:Max Planck

“The significant contribution of empiricism was not the eradication of certainty, but the eradication of infallibility as a criterion of certainty. And this shift from infallibilism to fallibilism has profound consequences not only for toleration, but also for the subordination of faith to reason and theology to philosophy.”

Reason Philosophy Atheism Consequence Profound Positive Atheism Significant Theology Certainty Contribution Criteria Toleration Empiricism Subordination Infallibility

Book:Why Atheism?

Source: Why Atheism?

“I've never been a religious person. I've been a spiritual person since I was about 15, 16, when I was first introduced to Psilocybin [mushrooms]. That really opened me up to thinking about the universe in a different way, and coming to significant realizations about my connection to something greater than me.”

Thinking Way Firsts Persons Different Spiritual Universe Religious Greater Connections Significant Realization Different Ways Mushrooms Religious Person Psilocybin

Author:Macklemore

“Those who dismiss rappers as vulgar outsiders miss the way that Jay-Z and Kanye embody the American dream: starting from humble beginnings, both rose by dint of hard work and talent to wealth and success. Jay embraces this role, styling himself as much a CEO as an artist, and he and Beyoncé have become, in a significant way, more fully America's first couple than their friends the Obamas.”

“Art is a normal and necessary behavior of human beings and like other common and universal occupations such as talking, working, exercising, playing, socializing, learning, loving, and caring, should be recognized, encouraged and developed in everyone. Via art, experience is heightened, elevated, made more memorable and significant”

Should Humans Art Made Human Beings Common Talking Exercise Behavior Normal Art Is Universal Caring Significant Memorable Occupation Socializing

Author:Ellen Dissanayake

“Don't worry about being successful. Worry about being significant.”

Worry Successful Significant Being Successful

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“However capable and skillful an individual may be, left alone, he or she will not survive. When we are sick or very young or very old, we must depend on the support of others. There is no significant division between us and other people, because our basic natures are the same. If we wish to ensure everyone's peace and happiness, we need to cultivate a healthy respect for the diversity of our peoples and cultures, founded on an understanding of this fundamental sameness of all human beings.”

“In this world, man has two significant possessions: intelligence and emotion. These two possessions govern our day-to-day life. But very often we see that emotion (ego) gets the upper hand in our life. We know that even if someone is extremely intelligent, when his emotion comes to the fore it will devour him. He is compelled to do what his emotion asks him to do.”

Ifs Knows Men World Two Hands Asks Emotion Our Lives This World Ego Intelligent Possession Significant Day To Day Compelled Day Life Day To Day Life Upper Hand

Author:Sri Chinmoy

“In 1953, the United States played a significant role in orchestrating the overthrow of Iran's popular prime minister, Mohammed Mossadegh. The Eisenhower administration believed its actions were justified for strategic reasons, but the coup was clearly a setback for Iran's political development and it is easy to see now why many Iranians continue to resent this intervention by America in their internal affairs.”

“Childbirth being one's most significant life passage, those close to us when we open to birth a baby will never be forgotten.”

Baby Birth Forgotten Significant Passages Childbirth

Author:Robin Lim

“An official statement from Liverpool raised the spectre of a future where 'a club's rival can bring about a significant ban for a top player without anything beyond an accusation'. But on hearing this, many Manchester United fans would have been asking for a definition of the word 'rival'.”

Has Beens United Player Fans Asking Raised Definitions Clubs Hearing Significant Statements Officials Rivals Bans Manchester Liverpool Accusation Manchester United Spectre

Author:Nick Hornby

“The thing that strikes me now when I think about the Wilderness of Childhood is the incredible degree of freedom my parents gave me to adventure there. A very grave, very significant shift in our idea of childhood has occurred since then. The Wilderness of Childhood is gone; the days of adventure are past. The land ruled by children, to which a kid might exile himself for at least some portion of every day from the neighboring kingdom of adulthood, has in large part been taken over, co-opted, colonized, and finally absorbed by the neighbors.”

Thinking Children Ideas Might Kids Past Parent Gone Taken Land Childhood Adventure Degrees Incredibles Strikes Neighbor Significant Graves Kingdoms Wilderness Portions Adulthood Exile

Author:Michael Chabon

“A significant event for me was learning Hank Williams, reconnecting with his music's simplicity, which inspired me to inhabit the same territory. It's different, because I grew up on Led Zeppelin, The Stooges and punk, so in that sense I'm mutating country and folk more than a few degrees.”

Different Country Events Grew Degrees Grew Up Inspired Simplicity Folks Significant Territory Punk Zeppelins Stooges Reconnecting Hank Williams Significant Events

Author:Stone Gossard

“Just about everything significant in my life happened after I passed forty. I was a housewife and mother, but yearned to be a writer. I worked at my writing whenever I could snatch a moment, and I assembled several manuscripts. I was just about forty when my first novel, East Wind, West Wind, was published. Then a few months later came The Good Earth. My career was launched at last, and it has given me the richest possible satisfaction”

Writing Firsts Moments Earth Lasts Mother Given Careers Novel Happened Wind Months West Satisfaction East Significant Forty Housewife Manuscripts Life Happens Good Earth

Author:Pearl S. Buck

“In Congress, while the House’s proposed defense budget calls for significant increases, it also cuts 11 billion dollars from veterans spending - including healthcare and disability pay. Be clear: we can’t equate spending on veterans with spending on defense.”

House Pay Clear Cutting Increase Dollars Including Congress Spending Defense Billions Significant Budgets Disability Healthcare Veteran

Author:Jennifer Granholm

“A decline in the national housing price level would need to be substantial to trigger a significant rise in foreclosures, because the vast majority of homeowners have built up substantial equity in their homes despite large mortgage-market financed withdrawals of home equity in recent years.”

Needs Years Home Levels Built Majority Significant Despite Decline Equity Housing Triggers Mortgage Withdrawal Homeowners Foreclosure Home Equity

Author:Alan Greenspan

“While local economies may experience significant price imbalances, a national severe price distortion seems most unlikely in the United States, given its size and diversity.”

May States Seems Given United United States Economy Diversity Size Significant Locals Severe Unlikely Distortion Imbalance

Author:Alan Greenspan

“... there hasn't been a serious life-style trend since the couch potato was sighted, in about 1986, on one of its rare forays to the video store. Cocooning remains a significant mass enterprise, encouraged by the availability of five hundred new cable channels and microwavable popcorn.”

Five Style Serious Mass Hundred Remains Stores Significant Video Enterprise Trends Potatoes Cables Couches Popcorn Availability Life Style Serious Life

Author:Barbara Ehrenreich

“I know of nothing more significant than the awakening of men and women throughout our country to the desire to improve their houses. Call it what you will - awakening, development, American Renaissance - it is a most startling and promising condition of affairs.”

Knows Men Country Desire House Conditions Development Men And Women Affair Awakening Significant Our Country Renaissance

Book:The House in Good Taste

Source: The House in Good Taste

“I feel one of the most significant honors a player can have in his sport is to have his number retired. Certainly for me to have that at Tennessee, it's with great pride.”

Feels Sports Numbers Player Pride Honor Significant Nfl Retired Tennessee

Author:Peyton Manning

“For it is only framed in space that beauty blooms. Only in space are events and objects and people unique and significant-and therefore beautiful. A tree has significance if one sees it against the empty face of sky. A note in music gains significance from the silences on either side. A candle flowers in the space of night. Even small and casual things take on significance if they are washed in space, like a few autumn grasses in one corner of an Oriental painting, the rest of the page bare.”

“(1) The more thoroughly a photographer explores his subject with the camera (i.e., the more pictures he makes), the more he sees and the better his chance of getting good results. (2) Even slight changes in subject approach can make significant differences in the effect of the picture.”

Differences Chance Results Subjects Effects Approach Cameras Photographer Significant

Author:Andreas Feininger

“This is nothing new. It has proved meritorious because we have gathered significant information on bad guys and only on bad guys over the years.”

Years Guy Information Significant Bad Guys Nsa Nothing New

Author:Saxby Chambliss

“While it is undeniable that many have been driven to immorality and crime by the need to survive, it is equally evident that the possession of a significant surplus of material goods has never been a guarantee against covetousness, rapacity and the infinite variety of vice and pain which spring from such passions. Indeed, it could be argued that the unrelenting compulsion of those who already have much to acquire even more has generated greater injustice, immorality and wretchedness than the cumulative effect of the struggles of the severely underprivileged to better their lot.”

“There's no way that scientists can ever rule out religion, or even have anything significant to say about the abstract idea of a divine creator.”

Way Ideas Divine Scientist Creator Significant Abstract

Author:Brian Greene

“A lot of meetings are held to arrange when to have meetings. ... Meetings today are usually called conferences to make them sound more significant.”

Today Sound Meetings Significant Conferences

Book:How To Survive From Nine To Five

Source: How To Survive From Nine To Five

“in the place I am from ... a grave is topped off with a huge mound of loose earth - carelessly, as if piled up in child's play, not serious at all - because death is just another way of being, and the dead will not stay put, and sometimes the actions of the dead are more significant, more profound, than their actions in life, and no structure of concrete or stone can contain them.”

Ifs Way Children Sometimes Play Action Earth Death Serious Huge Stones Structure Profound Significant Graves Concrete Another Way

Author:Jamaica Kincaid

“There is too great a tendency (perhaps encouraged by popular journalism) to deal with the dramatic moments, forgetting that these are not always the most significant moments. ... To find the significant rather than the dramatic features of industrial controversy, of a disagreement in regard to policy on board of directors or between managers, is essential to integrative business policies.”

Source: Mary Parker Follett--prophet of management: a celebration of writings from the 1920s

“Nothing has given me more hope recently than to observe how simple conversations give birth to actions that can change lives and restore our faith in the future. There is no more powerful way to initiate significant social change than to start a conversation. When a group of people discover that they share a common concern, that's when the process of change begins.”

People Way Giving Action Given Social Process Simple Powerful Common Groups Share Birth Conversation Concern Significant Life Changing Social Change Initiate Process Of Change

Author:Margaret J. Wheatley

“There are some people who cannot get onto a train without imagining that they are about to voyage into the significant unknown; as though the notion of movement were inseparably connected with the notion of discovery, as though each displacement of the body were a displacement of the soul.”

People Soul Body Movement Travel Discovery Train Notion Connected Significant Voyages Displacement

Author:Margaret Drabble

“In the history of enterprise, most of the protagonists of major new products and companies began their education - not in the classroom, where the old ways are taught, but in the factories and labs where new ways are wrought ... nothing has been so rare in recent years as an Ivy League graduate who has made a significant innovation in American enterprise.”

“It's still true that literary works by women, gays, and writers of color are often framed as specific, rather than universal, small rather than big, personal or particular rather than socially significant.”

Stills Bigs Literature Particular Color Gay Universal Significant Framed Literary Works

Book:Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There

Source: Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There

“I believe in love, but I'm not sitting around waiting for it. I buy houses. I travel. I take jobs on mountaintops in Transylvania... I know that happiness comes in many ways and if you spend your life hoping to be found by or to find a significant other, you're going to miss out on all that stuff. And that's what makes you special and makes your life rich.”

“A good deal of so-called atheism is itself, from my point of view, theologically significant. It is the working of God in history, and judgement upon the pious. An authentic prophet can be a radical critic of spurious piety, of sham spirituality.”

Spirituality Views Deals Atheism Critics Point Of View Significant Radical Judgement Prophet Piety Pious

Book:The Prophethood of All Believers

Source: The Prophethood of All Believers

“[On cooking:] What you keep out is as significant as what you put in.”

Cooking Significant

Author:Marcella Hazan

“Women were relegated to an inferior caste ... most dramatically with the coming of industrialization. 'Women's work' was segregated from significant human activity.”

Humans Activity Significant Inferiors Human Activity Castes Industrialization

Author:Madonna Kolbenschlag

“One demands two things of a poem. Firstly, it must be a well-made verbal object that does honor to the language in which it is written. Secondly, it must say something significant about a reality common to us all, but perceived from a unique perspective. What the poet says has never been said before, but, once he has said it, his readers recognize its validity for themselves.”

Wells Doe Made Said Two Reality Language Common Written Objects Poet Perspective Reader Honor Demand Unique Significant Two Things Validity Poetry By Famous Poets Unique Perspective

Author:W. H. Auden

“The single biggest stimulus to the economy are the unemployment benefits we're paying. These people go out and they spend the money. They go out and they have to get by to everything from paying their mortgage or buying food or just getting by. It has a significant impact on economic growth and the continuation of economic growth.”

People Growth Economy Economic Benefits Impact Significant Buying Unemployment Economic Growth Stimulus Mortgage Continuation Unemployment Benefits

Author:Joe Biden

“I'm very hopeful that we'll see some change in our food system. I don't know how far we'll go, or how quickly we'll get there, but there is no question that a significant percentage of the American public is dissatisfied with the food system.”

Knows Know How Significant Hopeful Percentages Dissatisfied

Author:Michael Pollan

“Regardless of what you plan on when you fall in love, significant others come and go in your life. Your friends are it. My friends are my everything.”

Fall Plans My Friends Falling In Love Significant Comes And Goes Significant Other

Author:Sophia Bush

“Humanity finds itself in the midst of the world. In the midst of all other creatures humanity is the most significant and yet the most dependent upon the others.”

World Humanity Creatures Significant Dependent Midst

Author:Hildegard of Bingen

“The significant mistake of the traditionalists is they require the people to start where the church is instead of the church starting where the people are. Innovators begin by asking, 'What do we need to do to reach the people where they are?'”

People Needs Church Mistake Asking Starting Significant Innovators

Author:Leith Anderson

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